SÃO PAULO, Brazil – Nissan has announced a partnership with the European Institute of Design São Paulo (Istituto Europeo de Design – IED SP) to help prospective students access the institute's Automotive Design course. This is the first time in the history of the IED in Brazil that an automaker is offering this type of opportunity to students. The partnership will also allow more openings in the program, giving more aspiring automotive designers in Brazil access to the classes.
"It is very important to connect Nissan to the younger generations," said John Sahs, head of Nissan's Satellite Studio for Design, in Brazil, which is also responsible for the automaker's projects in Latin America. "For that reason, we are investing our expertise and resources in finding future automotive designers in Brazil and helping them develop all of their creativity and skills. Through this partnership with the IED, Nissan plans to contribute to the future of Brazilian design."
The Automotive Design course, which lasts one year with classes given on alternating weekends, focuses on designers and other professionals who desire to expand their knowledge of automotive design and enter this profession. The program includes an international module of one week in Turin, Italy, one of the world's main hubs for automotive design.
Subjects covered during the course will be integrated with Nissan's current business – such as investigation and research, current challenges for the Japanese automaker, and workshops, seminars, and roundtables with Nissan professionals in Brazil and around the world.
"With the arrival of a new head of design, Nissan is strengthening its team in Brazil," said Fernando Morita, coordinator of the Automotive Design course at IED SP. "Through this partnership with Nissan, our students will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge. We are sure that it will be an incredible experience for them."
At the end of each semester, the students will be challenged to create a project directly related to Nissan, which gives them an opportunity to experience the process of creating a new car and to add it to their résumé. Besides having direct contact with the market's realities in the classrooms and laboratories, the students may compete for an internship at Nissan's Satellite Studio for Design in Brazil.
The class holds 15 students. Applications may be presented beginning September 13 and will be received until September 23. Classes are scheduled to begin on October 20. More information is available on the IED website.
Nissan and IED
Nissan and the Istituto Europeo di Design (European Institute of Design) work closely together in Brazil. In 2011, the Japanese automaker supported the first Automotive Design course of the IED SP. At that time, eight students in the program were challenged to create cars for Nissan's 2025 lineup under the supervision of Nissan designers. At the end of the course, they presented their project to Shiro Nakamura, Nissan's former global head of Design, and to the then vice president of the Nissan Design America (NDA) studio, Alfonso Albaisa, who is now the global head of Design of Nissan, INFINITI and Datsun.
At the inauguration of the Satellite Studio for Design in Brazil in 2014, the vice president of the Nissan Design Americas (NDA) studio, Taro Ueda, spoke to 70 students at the Istituto Europeo di Design – IED Rio and conducted workshops.
This time, Nissan and IED have come together to offer opportunities to young Brazilian designers who cannot afford paying 100% of the Automotive Design course.
Information:
Automotive Design Course – IED SP
Application: September, 13 to 23 via this website
Selection: September 24 to 28
Enrollment: October 1 to 12
Classes begin: October 20
Istituto Europeo di Design
Istituto Europeo di Design - IED is an international network of training and research in Design, Fashion, Visual Communication and Management of creative disciplines. Since its inauguration in 1966, FDI has emerged as a center of strongly innovative proposals with a pragmatic and culturally rich educational model.
Bringing together the best characteristics of vocational schools and the Academy, the Institute is the embodiment of a model institution, based on the synthesis of the thinking of its founder and current president Francesco Morelli: "Know and know how to do."
It currently has offices in Italy - Milan, Como, Rome, Florence, Venice, Turin and Cagliari; in Spain - Madrid and Barcelona; and in Brazil - São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and, starting with China, expands its international presence with special attention to the countries that are protagonists of the new economy, continuing to be a cultural and entrepreneurial project in constant transformation.
Contact
Ana Genaro
Corporate Communications Coordinator
+55 21 2134-9194
ana.genaro@nissan.com.br
Mila Poli
Corporate Communications Manager
+55 21 2134-9009
mila.poli@nissan.com.br
Alexandre Carvalho
Communications Specialist — Product
+55 11 4504-3214
alexandre.carvalho@nissan.com.br
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